Tinkers Lullaby Pecker Dunne Song Lyrics And Guitar Chords
Written and recorded by Pecker. ''The Pecker Dunne'' is a singer songwriter from Ireland's travelling community. He plays the 5 string banjo and comes from a long line of musicians in the Dunne family. He's a regular busker outside G.A.A stadiums on match days. The Pecker's greatest hit was 'O'Sullivans John [ lyrics and chords ]' which was recorded by Johnny McEvoy and by The Dubliners. This is a beautiful little lullaby by Pecker. An Irish Lullaby Song Lyrics are also here for you to learn to play on your guitar.
Words Without The Chords.
Go to sleep my little tinker
Let all your troubles pass you by
For you have no place to camp now
Ah that's a tinkers lullaby.
Ever since you were a baby
Cradle in your mothers shawl
The site they said they didn't want you
And now you have no home at all
When your mother died and left you
You had to fend all alone
All in this land of saints and scholars
And still you have not got a home.
Although your clothes are torn and ragged
And your hair is silvery grey
Some day you'll die and go to heaven
And you will find a camp down there.
Go to sleep my little tinker
Let all your troubles pass you by
For you have no place to camp now
Ah that's a tinkers lullaby.
Go to sleep my little tinker
Let all your troubles pass you by
For you have no place to camp now
Ah that's a tinkers lullaby.
Ever since you were a baby
Cradle in your mothers shawl
The site they said they didn't want you
And now you have no home at all
When your mother died and left you
You had to fend all alone
All in this land of saints and scholars
And still you have not got a home.
Although your clothes are torn and ragged
And your hair is silvery grey
Some day you'll die and go to heaven
And you will find a camp down there.
Go to sleep my little tinker
Let all your troubles pass you by
For you have no place to camp now
Ah that's a tinkers lullaby.
The guitar chords
Go to [C]sleep my little [F]tinker
Let [G]all your troubles pass you [C]by[G]
[C]For you have no place to [F]camp now
Ah [G]that's a tinkers lulla[C]by.
Ever [C]since you were a [F]baby
[G]Cradled in your mothers [C]shawl[G]
The [C]site they said they didn't [F]want you
And [G]now you have no home at [C]all
[C]When your mother died and [F]left you
You [G]had to fend all a[C]lone[G]
All [C]in this land of saints and [F]scholars
And [G]still you have not got a [C]home.
Al[C]though your clothes are torn and [F]ragged
[G]And your hair is silvery [C]grey[G]
Some [C]day you'll die and go to [F]heaven
And [G]you will find a camp ground [C]there.
Repeat 1st verse
Other songs about travellers on the site included The Travelling People , and another called The Last Of The Travelling People which is also be The Pecker Dunne . The Thirty Foot Trailer which was a hit for Luke Kelly , plus Wexford Town .
Pecker Dunne song Tinkers Lullaby
It is really only a select group, those of true tinker and genuine gipsy blood, that have inherited the musical traditions of the troubadours. Even though most of this group are mainly illiterate they are well "wagon-schooled", cultured and disciplined, with highly developed skills of instinct, adaptability and memory. By not reading or writing, they remember everything they see and hear and feel. For this reason they have. provided us with outstanding versions of the ancient ballads, as well as a wide variety of country songs which would otherwise have been. lost, and their repertoires and performance skills have done much to strengthen the potency of our recent "folk revival". Both tinkers and gipsies recognise the importance of social music-making, and when they gather for seasonal jobs and markets, horse-fairs, potato-lifting and berry- picking, these are the times when they enjoy contesting their skills in singing and step-dancing.
England:
A number of the travellers on these recordings were street singers, buskers and hawkers. Before her songs were drowned out by the London traffic, Janet Penfold, was one of the last, if not the last, of the street-sellers using an ancient type of decorative cry to advertise her wares. Queen among the English gipsy singers. of South East England was Phoebe Smith who was a member of the Scamp family from Kent. I was amazed to discover her "general-dealing" and living in a house surrounded by her wagons. near to my parents home in Woodbridge, Suffolk. She had a hop-plant in the garden to remind her of the glorious days of hop-picking, before the machines took over. Local farmers in the Cambridge-Lincolnshire area are still dependent on Frank O Connor and his family for seasonal work as well as for their competitive step-dancing with harmonica and "diddling". Another mouth musician, singer and gipsy queen, in the West Country, was Carolyne Hughes, who, while she and her family were being recorded, was being moved on with tractors by acider-sodden farmer.
Scotland:
In Scotland the outstanding travelling street singer and storyteller was Jimmy McBeath, the "supertramp", claiming descendancy from Shakespeare's hero. All over the North East, most of the musical travellers claimed to be the aristocratic remnants of the Royal Stewart family, outlawed since Jacobite times. They were ballad singers as well as masters of the pipes, fiddles and accordion. In order to record Davie Stewart, the Scottish street singer, he skilfully persuaded me that I would first need to get his large piano-accordion out of pawn. Belle Stewart and her family, including Kathie Higgins, hosted the great gatherings during the raspberry picking at Blairgowrie in Perthshire. Here, round the campfire, they kept the wheels of the battery operated tape-recorder turning for several weeks with mouth-organ playing and songs from the Kelbys and McPhees, with, not only Scots and Irish tinkers, but also English gypsies such as Angela Brasil from Gloucester. Queen among the Scottish tinkers was Jeannie Robertson who received an MBE for her remarkable contribution to Scottish folksong.
Ireland:
Chief amongst the Irish tinkers was street- singer, Margaret Barry and The Pecker Dunne. From her caravan at Crossmaglen in South Armagh border country. with her banjo tied across her back by a piece of string, she cycled to the nearby markets, fairs, football matches, weddings and wakes and performed extensively all over Ireland. Mouth- music, this time called "Jigging", I heard from Paddy Doran, one of a large group of Irish tinkers recorded on Dan O Neill's loanen on the outskirts of Belfast in 1952.
Languages of the Travellers:
In Scotland and Ireland the travellers are known as tinkers and many of them still proudly retain a precious treasure chest containing the tools they once used for mending pots and
pans when they visited the outlying farmhouses. The tinkers use a number of secret cant languages, based on Scots and Irish Gaelic as well as Lowland Scots. The popular cant in Ireland is called "Gammon" (the word meaning "bad" as in the English word "gammy"). Many Scots tinkers have a working knowledge of five or six languages cants as well as Romany (See "The Choring Song"]
In England and Wales the gipsies speak "Romany", a language derived from Sanskrit and other Indian languages. English and Welsh Romany have certain differences, the latter being considered by experts to be the more ancient form. [See "Mandy went to poov the grys"].
© Peter Kennedy, Gloucester, April 1994
England:
A number of the travellers on these recordings were street singers, buskers and hawkers. Before her songs were drowned out by the London traffic, Janet Penfold, was one of the last, if not the last, of the street-sellers using an ancient type of decorative cry to advertise her wares. Queen among the English gipsy singers. of South East England was Phoebe Smith who was a member of the Scamp family from Kent. I was amazed to discover her "general-dealing" and living in a house surrounded by her wagons. near to my parents home in Woodbridge, Suffolk. She had a hop-plant in the garden to remind her of the glorious days of hop-picking, before the machines took over. Local farmers in the Cambridge-Lincolnshire area are still dependent on Frank O Connor and his family for seasonal work as well as for their competitive step-dancing with harmonica and "diddling". Another mouth musician, singer and gipsy queen, in the West Country, was Carolyne Hughes, who, while she and her family were being recorded, was being moved on with tractors by acider-sodden farmer.
Scotland:
In Scotland the outstanding travelling street singer and storyteller was Jimmy McBeath, the "supertramp", claiming descendancy from Shakespeare's hero. All over the North East, most of the musical travellers claimed to be the aristocratic remnants of the Royal Stewart family, outlawed since Jacobite times. They were ballad singers as well as masters of the pipes, fiddles and accordion. In order to record Davie Stewart, the Scottish street singer, he skilfully persuaded me that I would first need to get his large piano-accordion out of pawn. Belle Stewart and her family, including Kathie Higgins, hosted the great gatherings during the raspberry picking at Blairgowrie in Perthshire. Here, round the campfire, they kept the wheels of the battery operated tape-recorder turning for several weeks with mouth-organ playing and songs from the Kelbys and McPhees, with, not only Scots and Irish tinkers, but also English gypsies such as Angela Brasil from Gloucester. Queen among the Scottish tinkers was Jeannie Robertson who received an MBE for her remarkable contribution to Scottish folksong.
Ireland:
Chief amongst the Irish tinkers was street- singer, Margaret Barry and The Pecker Dunne. From her caravan at Crossmaglen in South Armagh border country. with her banjo tied across her back by a piece of string, she cycled to the nearby markets, fairs, football matches, weddings and wakes and performed extensively all over Ireland. Mouth- music, this time called "Jigging", I heard from Paddy Doran, one of a large group of Irish tinkers recorded on Dan O Neill's loanen on the outskirts of Belfast in 1952.
Languages of the Travellers:
In Scotland and Ireland the travellers are known as tinkers and many of them still proudly retain a precious treasure chest containing the tools they once used for mending pots and
pans when they visited the outlying farmhouses. The tinkers use a number of secret cant languages, based on Scots and Irish Gaelic as well as Lowland Scots. The popular cant in Ireland is called "Gammon" (the word meaning "bad" as in the English word "gammy"). Many Scots tinkers have a working knowledge of five or six languages cants as well as Romany (See "The Choring Song"]
In England and Wales the gipsies speak "Romany", a language derived from Sanskrit and other Indian languages. English and Welsh Romany have certain differences, the latter being considered by experts to be the more ancient form. [See "Mandy went to poov the grys"].
© Peter Kennedy, Gloucester, April 1994
List of Travelers songs.
Won't You Buy My Sweet Blooming Lavender?
Come A' Ye Tramps an' Hawkers
The Blarney Stone
The Berryfields of Blair
The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre
The Choring Song The Beggar Wench
A Blacksmith Courted Me
Barnyards o' Delgaty/ Gin I Were Where the Gadi
On the Bonny Banks o' the Roses:
The Bard of Armagh
Dandling Song,
Bonny Lassie-o, Cuckoos's
I Am A Romany
Devonshire Time and
Higher Germanie
The Little Beggarman
Kathleen
The Lady o' the Dainty Doon-By
She Moves Through the Fair (Our Wedding Day)
The Poor Smuggler's Boy
Aul' Jockey Bruce o' the Fornet
The Leaving of Glen Urquhart
Twa Heids Are Better Than Yin
The Moss O' Burreldale
The Gay Gordons (march)
The Overgate
Macpherson's Rant
Macpherson's Lament
Tinker's Lullaby
Freeborn Man Of The Traveling People
Wexford Town
Won't You Buy My Sweet Blooming Lavender?
Come A' Ye Tramps an' Hawkers
The Blarney Stone
The Berryfields of Blair
The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre
The Choring Song The Beggar Wench
A Blacksmith Courted Me
Barnyards o' Delgaty/ Gin I Were Where the Gadi
On the Bonny Banks o' the Roses:
The Bard of Armagh
Dandling Song,
Bonny Lassie-o, Cuckoos's
I Am A Romany
Devonshire Time and
Higher Germanie
The Little Beggarman
Kathleen
The Lady o' the Dainty Doon-By
She Moves Through the Fair (Our Wedding Day)
The Poor Smuggler's Boy
Aul' Jockey Bruce o' the Fornet
The Leaving of Glen Urquhart
Twa Heids Are Better Than Yin
The Moss O' Burreldale
The Gay Gordons (march)
The Overgate
Macpherson's Rant
Macpherson's Lament
Tinker's Lullaby
Freeborn Man Of The Traveling People
Wexford Town
